CALL FOR VOTES: REPLACE comp.unix.internals

[Laird J. Heal]

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PROPOSAL:
     To revise the newsgroup "comp.unix.internals".
     The choices for a new name are "comp.unix.esoterica" and
     "comp.unix.wizards".
CHARTER:
     The new newsgroup shall not directly encompass the subject matter
     covered by comp.unix.internals.  It will revive the previous
     charter of comp.unix.wizards with the consideration that
     newsgroups now exist for general discussion on specific topics.
     Articles in this newsgroup should therefore contain information
     which is of interest to the unix community but which might not
     be generally known by the members of that community.  
     
     Cross-posting of articles from other groups shall be encouraged
     if the information meets the above criterion.  Especially welcome
     are facts not usually discoverable by the reader.
     
     Posting of questions to this group will be strongly discouraged.
     Follow-up articles should only be posted to correct an error or
     ambiguity.  Contributors should take heed that many professionals
     rely on the accuracy of the information posted in this group for
     their work.  Technical accuracy is better than a timely
VOTING:
     The voting period commences on October 25th, and continues until 
     November 25th.  A mass acknowlegement will not be posted prior 
     to the end of the vote unless warranted.  Votes must be mailed, 
     posted votes will not be counted.  One vote per mailing, proxies 
     and mailing lists do not count.
 
     Votes both for and against this proposal may be mailed to
     samsung!slum!votes, [decwrl!]decvax!slum!votes, or
     votes at slum.mv.com.  The domain path costs more and takes longer;
     uunet!samsung!slum is a very fast path.
     
     All votes will be tallied with a script, as with awk.
 
     The Subject: line ONLY will contain the vote.  To retain the
     current comp.unix.internals, put 'comp.unix.internals' or 
     'internals' on the Subject: line.  Similarly, to vote for
     comp.unix.esoterica, include that or the word esoterica on
     the Subject: line, and to vote for comp.unix.wizards, put
     comp.unix.wizards or just wizards somewhere on the Subject:
     lin
RESULTS:
     The final vote tally will be mailed on 11/25 and the votes
     posted.  The vote fails if more than 1/3 of the votes were
     against both comp.unix.wizards and comp.unix.esoterica, or if
     neither comp.unix.wizards nor comp.unix.esoterica has enough votes
     to be created.  The vote succeeds for either comp.unix.wizards
     or comp.unix.esoterica only if that group receives 100 more votes
     for it than against it and if that group receives at least twice
     the number of votes as the other.
     
     This deserves some explanation in terms of the Guidelines.
     
     In effect, this is a two-part vote.  We only create a new group
     if the vote against comp.unix.internals succeeds.  A vote for
     either of the others is a vote against comp.unix.internals, but
     we do not want to remove it with nothing in its place, so even
     after 2/3 of the votes go against it, we must make sure 2/3 of
     the votes are for the new group.  Since the spirit of the Guidelines
     go

MODERATION:
     This is to be an unmoderated newsgroup.  If inappropriate
     articles do prove to be a problem within the new comp.unix
     hierarchy, and a qualified moderator steps forward, this
     charter will hopefully help clarify the need and allow a
     quick decision by the voters at that time.